Things To Do
Tours
Boat Tours: Those Dam Boat Guys (Highly Recommend! The best way to experience this city)
Bike Tours: Amsterdam Bike Pirates (Highly Recommend! City and Countryside bike tours - we recommend the countryside tour)
Walking Tours: Hit The Bricks (Highly Recommend! We recommend either the Beer Tour OR Ghost Tour)
Self-Guided Tour: Mystery City Games (a combination of a treasure hunt and an escape room with the city of Amsterdam being your stage and its history and culture all part of the game)
Sustainable/Positive Impact Tours/Eco Tours: Tours That Matter & Black Heritage Tours
Food Tours: Hungry Birds
Red Light District Tours: That Dam Guide
Customised Corporate Walking Tours: walksinamsterdam.nl
Museums
*Amsterdam is the city with the most museums per capita, you MUST experience at least one museum
*Book in advance - Anne Frank (needs to be booked on a certain day 2 months in advance), The Van Gogh Museum (at least 1 month in advance), and The Rijksmuseum (needs to be booked at least two weeks in advance)
Rijksmuseum (The National Museum, art museum),
Van Gogh Museum (Highly Recommend! Art museum they have used his paintings to tell his life story)
Anne Frank House (History museum, we recommend buying the ticket with the tour)
Rembrandt House (Recommend! Art museum. We think it’s a more educational experience than the Rijksmuseum)
Amsterdam Museum (best museum for Amsterdam’s history. Also has a free art section)
Moco Museum (art museum includes Banksy, and you can see what wealthy, old Dutch homes look like on the inside)
Ons’ Lieve Hier op solder (Highly Recommend! Our Lord in the Attic, a hidden church in the attic)
Micropia (Museum of micro-organism)
Body Worlds (Museum of the human body)
Red Light Secrets (Recommend! Museum of Prostitution)
Electric Ladyland (Fun museum of florescent lights)
Stedelijk Museum (Museum of Modern Art)
NEMO (Recommend For Kids! Science museum – great for kids)
Het Scheepvaartmuseum (The Maritime Museum)
Jewish Historical Museum (History Museum)
FOAM (Photography museum)
Tropenmuseum (History museum. A museum of previous Dutch colonies)
Eye Filmmuseum (Film museum & Film theatre)
Museum Van Loon (Merchant's House Museum. See how wealthy merchants lived in the 1600s)
Het Grachtenhuis (Recommend! The Canal House Museum. Learn how Amsterdam was built)
House Boat Museum (See the inside of a house boat)
The Portuguese Synagogue (Best during Museum Night - 2nd of November)
Holocaust Memorial & Dutch Theatre Museum (History Museum)
Verzetsmuseum (Highly Recommend! History museum - The Dutch Resistance Museum)
Hortus Botanicus (Indoor Botanical Gardens. One of the oldest botanical gardens still in existence.)
Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum (History & Cultural museum)
Sex Museum (History & Cultural Museum)
Erotic Museum (History & Cultural Museum)
The Old Church (The oldest building in Amsterdam)
Torture Museum (History Museum)
Het Klederdrachtmuseum (History & Culture Museum. The Costume/clothing Museum. For a very fun experience, have a group photo taken dressed in old, traditional Dutch clothing throughout history)
Amsterdam City Archives (History Museum)
The Tulip Museum (buy your tulip bulbs here)
Escape Rooms Amsterdam
Sherlocked Escape Room (Highly Recommend!)
Rijksmuseum Escape Game
Ton Ton Club – video arcade/ Arcade Bar
Escapist Escape Room Amsterdam
Escape Room Amsterdam – Xitroom Escape Game
Escape Room Locked
Zombie Escape
Escape From Amsterdam
Theatres
Tuschinski (Highly Recommend! Rated one of the world's most beautiful cinemas)
Rialto
Sustainable Tourism
Plastic whale (spend a few hours on a boat exploring the stunning canals of Amsterdam, while fishing rubbish out of the canals)
IJTJE VOOR KARWEITJE (spend a few hours picking up litter in the beautiful Vondelpark and receive rewards in the form of a delicious beer from the famous micro-brewery; Brouwerij’t IJ *best brewery in town)
Trash Hero Amsterdam (Join a city trash pick up for a few hours and help to keep the city clean)
Episode (vintage/second-hand clothes shop near Waterlooplein)
Conscious hotel (eco-friendly, sustainable hotel/accommodation)
De Kas (Dine inside a greenhouse, all fruit and vegetables are grown and processed in-house)
Cacaomuseum (learn about the history of chocolate and fair-trade chocolate in Amsterdam, and of course, try some mouth-watering chocolate)
Tony's Chocolonely (buy some of Amsterdam’s famous fair-trade chocolate or, even better, make your own chocolate bar)
Annual City Events
Kings Day (27th of April)
Gay Pride (every August)
Museumnacht (Museum Night - 2nd of November -museums host cultural parties and events all night long, it’s pub hopping, but the museum addition)
Stand up Comedy/Story Telling
Comedy Cafe
Mezrab (Story-telling)
Boom Chicago
Parks
Vondelpark (Centre West)
Westerpark (North West)
Oesterpark (East)
Beatrixpark (Far South)
Sarphatipark (South)
LGBTQI+ AND Drag Shows
*Look out for the rainbow flags!! There are certain areas in Amsterdam to look out for - parts of the Zeedijk (Red Light District), Spuistraat, the streets between Nieuwendijk and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Reguliersdwarsstraat
The Queen’s Head (Drag-Queen Bingo nights, great place during Gay Pride)
Traf Cafe’t Sluisje (One of the best drag shows in Amsterdam, must book in advance)
De Lellebel (Drag Show)
Prik (cocktail bar)
Alternative Activities
Space Invader is a street artist (using miniature tiles who creates space invaders all throughout cities. Find all of them in the city, plot them on a map, and link all the dots to draw a space invader on the city map
NDSM (is old dockyards converted into warehouses – the best and most of Amsterdam’s street art is in this area. Don’t miss the beautiful three-story mural of Anne Frank done by the famous Brazilian street artist; Kobra. And don't miss the IJ Hallen Market once a month - the largest flea market in Europe)
Festivals
*There are so many outdoor music festivals and cultural festivals throughout Amsterdam and the surrounding areas, all through the year. Contact us to find out what’s happening while you are visiting the city